Here is an owl that Matthew and I found while making our way around Sarasota, Florida's beautiful Botanical Gardens. This one flew across and wiggled its way into what appeared a very non-owl-sized crevice. And now that I've spoken about the Botanical Gardens, I have a few things to add..can't leave out flowers when flowers are involved!
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Yup he was up to something and it certainly involved a morsel of some sort. Maybe the driver left something like a bag of french fries in the back, either way, that crow wasn't leaving without a piece for himself! How could you not laugh after seeing that happen while in progress. I'm sure that crow was quite pleased with himself. To finish off, I'll include another of my beloved crow escapades. This one in drawn form...it's what I imagine when told by a friend how the crows at Valley River Center Mall parking lot like to break open their nuts. Not a bad idea, getting nourishment enough to fly off into the sun
Perhaps here we have an early version of what BirdsAlongTheWay is really about! This was my first time back in photoshop since working on the program extensively during my Master's in Journalism at the University of Oregon. I took a Web Design class that only taught website design, but me being the more artsy of types, I wanted to bring my creative skills to the table. Since my original photo of this drawing out of my sketchbook included the paper as well as a silly cloud and the markers I'd used to draw the darn thing in the first place, my project was to take all those out and fill in some more of the dragon (notice the chest now is purple instead of white). It was a little bit finicky of a time since photoshop is the kind of program where you can do a single thing in a wide variety of approaches. That always makes for a time when it's been long enough I took the class ago that I was fumbling about a bit but I'm proud of the result and I hope ya'll like it. A darker version but just a reminder that while this is birds along the way, birds did start from something reptilian. So there's a ponderance you can ponder away upon ;)
Once again, the original version. Evolution of a dragon indeed. <3 of art too. Fishing success in Great Falls National Park on the Maryland side. Early Spring 2013 on the Potomac River. |
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